Our jurors, MICHELLE EHLEN, ROY LIEBMAN, and GLENN GAYLORD, have returned their picks for this year's awards. While they enjoyed the process, "there were many close calls and what was so wonderful was we had so many films from which to choose…so many favorites. It would be easy to put together a large list of Honorable Mentions..."

As always, the audience balloting gave rise to a few very close calls, but we do have the winners:

For AUDIENCE FAVORITE DRAMA, the winner was THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS, directed by FABIAN GORGEART, with an average score of 4.342 (out of possible 5.0). Runner up was THE REAL THING, directed by BRANDON KELLEY, with a score of 4.195.

AUDIENCE FAVORITE COMEDY (we had no musical films this year) was DANNY deVITO's film CURMUDGEONS, scoring a very impressive 4.69. SOMETHING NEW, directed by TJ Marchbank, was runner up with 4.662. And ETAGE X, directed by Francy Fabritz, scored 4.318 to become second runner-up.

AUDIENCE FAVORITE DOCUMENTARY was LITTLE POTATO, directed by Wes Hurley, with a score of 4.225. First runner up was CREATING GENDER INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS, directed by Jonathan Skurnik, with 4.048.

Congratulations to all our winners and runners up! We hope to see more of your work in the future.

For BEST DRAMA, the winner was the unique and stylish THE DARE PROJECT, shot as two films 14 years apart and now doing the festival circuit as one story. DARE scored an average of 4.51 (out of a possible 5.0) followed by SOMETHING ABOUT ALEX, memorable for a surprise twist, and our audience gave it a score of 4.32. Several other films scored over 4.0 in this category.

For BEST MUSICAL OR COMEDY, the runaway winner was MRS. McCUTCHEON, scoring a phenomenal 4.86. Nothing else was even close, but second place went to LUBER, with a very respectable score of 4.36.

BEST DOCUMENTARY was taken by THE PREP PROJECT, which was popular with our audience to the tune of a 4.11 score, followed by THE SECRET STORY, about the long campaign to legalize medical marijuana, with a score of 3.83. Congratulations to ALL our winners, and thanks again for participating in the CMG Short Film Festival!